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Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over …
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Innovation and technological progress are the key determinants of long-run economic growth and welfare. Therefore, an important question is, how can public policy encourage more innovation? In this chapter, I review some of the empirical findings from various recent studies on innovation and...
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We document the evolution of intergenerational income (IGI ) inequality, measured as the relative income between old and young individuals, using harmonised microdata from 42 countries at different stages of economic development. In the last 20 years, IGI inequality has increased (in favour of...
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Much has been written about the relationship between economic growth and aggregate inequality in recent years. In this paper we extend this literature by examining whether economic growth affects, not the level, but rather the nature of inequality. To do this we focus on the Irish economy which...
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a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …
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